Creating Muppets out of household materials with Jim Henson
Absolutely delightful!
You can now read the entirety of sci-fi magazine If for free According to BoingBoing, all 176 issues of If have been made available via the Internet Archive, including the ones edited by Hugo Award-winning Frederik Pohl. His greatest contribution to the magazine was, perhaps, the introduction of the “If-first” series, which showcased new authors. A number of…
Source: Home – BBC Bitesize BBC Bitesize is a website from Great Britain that houses tons of teaching resources and lesson plans. They are free to use, but the site does have two caveats. One, the grade levels are written for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. This means if you are looking for US…
Classroom technology is everywhere. Schools are filled with shiny, interactive devices, and new gadgets and apps flood the market every day. Teachers in districts with limited funding for technology are turning to crowdfunding sources to obtain technology for their classrooms. But is technology the panacea that we’re all searching for? Source: Five Myths About Classroom…
But! A recent NYPL project has paid for the already-digitized registration records to be marked up as XML. (I was not involved, BTW, apart from saying “yes, this would work” four years ago.) Now for anything that’s unambiguously a “book”, we have a parseable record of its pre-1964 interactions with the Copyright Office: the initial registration and any potential renewal….
5 Best Practices to Globalize Your School | Getting Smart Although we know what a modern education can and should look like, we struggle to provide equitable opportunities for all students. Global learning experiences in particular stand out as an element of a rigorous education that is common to some students fortunate enough to attend…
Source: dig.ccMixter Home Trying to create multimedia without stepping on copyright issues can be difficult, but sites like digCCMixter make it easier. To get started, head on over to digCCMixter and start looking for music that you want to use. When you find a song you like, click on the orange download button. digCCMixter will…